Systema Solar is a Columbian world music band but the question is: Which world? The six-piece band takes strong elements of traditional Caribbean music, highly percussive and emphatically joy-filled, ...

The Colombian band Systema Solar knows how to have a good time. You can hear it in their infectious music, an inspired collision between the Latin folk traditions of their home country, the tropical ...

Heavy on the Afro-Caribbean sound, fusing champeta, bullerengue, hip-hop and electronic beats, Systema Solar is back with a pico-party of a music video -- directed by Juan David Hernandez and the… By ...

Meet Systema Solar, ambassadors of the vivacious lands that make up Colombia’s Caribbean coast, and heirs to a musical region so rich in folkloric music that it seamlessly gets recycled and re-worked ...

For this week's weekend mix, we have a bunch of new videos for you and some great music to ease you out of your cubicle and onto the dance floor, the couch, the bed, the park -- wherever you spend ...

In Colombia, there is no recycling program. Instead, there are the so-called "disposable people," who scavenge everyone else's leftovers looking for anything that can be re-used. In Colombia, soon ...

Fifteen years ago, a spontaneous gig for an art biennial in Medellín changed everything. What was meant to be a one-off audiovisual performance turned into the genesis of one of Latin America’s most ...

Challenging both traditional music and current politics, the Colombian band takes a colorful and politically urgent journey through Afro-Caribbean... Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after ...

Systema Solar are billed as Columbia's most explosive live act, but this seven-piece ensemble aren't actually a band in the traditional sense. They're an audio-visual collective that, through their ...

Systema Solar just released their second album in the U.S. in 12 months. By Elias Leight The Colombian band Systema Solar pulled off a neat trick to call itself into existence, orchestrating its ...

The Colombian and Afro-Caribbean vibes that persistently and provocatively permeate Systema Solar's Rumbo a Tierra speak to the seven-piece sound system's continued digital evolution. Beholden to an ...